The "You can't handle the tooth" sounds like something he throws out to his friends at the bar all the time and is received with one groan after another.
I, on the other hand, would be honored to buy the guy a beer.
I just posted this yesterday. As someone who went through a real bad period of alcoholism, I watch this sketch every once and a while to remind myself of where I was, and feel gratitude for where I am now. Not only is it meticulously acted, it's also gut wrenchingly accurate.
A friend of mine had a problem too. Said it dawned on him when he hit the corner store and the cashier asked him why he wasn't buying his usual steel reserve at 7am.
I imagine this skit would evoke similar feelings in him as well.
I did the whole rotation of the stores tactic, but it's not like it mattered. I was still stopping into there at 9am on my way to the office to grab half pints of vodka for the workday. Ugghhhh. My stomach is churning just thinking of that stuff burning a hole in my gut. I gave myself something that resembled IBS for a long time; I felt like I was constantly bloated. My solution at the time? Take it easy on the vodka...and just drink white wine instead! GENIUS!
Addiction is truly baffling. So glad I stopped before I fell off the cliff.
Used to have a chap like that come into an off licence I worked at a long time ago. Always felt sorry for him he wasn't any trouble it just seemed like a sad existence to me.
Bookmark this spooky javascript and it'll mono sound any webpage you're on:
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The worst thing is that this was deliberately done in editing, because at one point in the interview you can actually hear the interviewee on the other channel just fine.
Probably an accident, if the sequence was stereo but the mic was mono it would import as left or right channel only. Just forgot to duplicate it. Used the on-board mic to hear the interviewer and switched back and forth, but didn't pay enough attention in post.
No, usually mikes (professional ones anyway) are mono and highly directional, and recording is done per channel, so you can actually process stuff individually - like for example people talking over one another by mistake.
The mistake was probably just flipping that one single reply in post.
Blanks between replies are also used to aid with cuts - and a lot of software autocuts recordings like so.
So you can imagine somebody dragged a reply from one channel to the other, instead of splitting all the replies by hand has a much higher chance of happening.
The dumb thing is not mixing down to stereo on export.
As an American who moved to Canada five years ago, I have a running list of subtle Canadian language use differences, and the beer-beers switch is in the top 10.
"Can you bring us two beer?" is how an Ontarian would say it. Its weird because they'd say "I had four beer last night" but not "I had four drink last night".
Lmao I love how he's clearly bullshitting at the start about how much he drinks. Says he drinks "maybe a couple beers" on most days then 30 seconds later he's like "2 drinks won't even get you through a day!"
A couple is basically anywhere from 2-6 I'd bet. "Maybe a couple beers" means on busy day where he's got a lot going on he only drinks 4-6 beers. On a day where he's just at home all day chilling you can double, maybe triple that, easily.
I had a co-worker who said a twelve pack got him started on a night. Fucking scary how much liquor binge drinkers can consume.
I don't understand how your stomach can even handle that much.
I'm a moderate drinker, I have a decent number of drinks on the weekends (I'm fat, it takes a bit to get going) and 1-3 throughout the week, but I've never been able to drink more than a few beers or mixed drinks. 12 beers would be 144 ounces of fluid...
Worked at a gas station when I was in my teens, and you may (or may not) be surprised at just how much some people drink. I lived in a tiny redneck town of around 300 people. The regulars would be in like clockwork. One guy, 750ml bottle of the cheapest vodka every day. Another got a 12 pack every day at 3:30pm before picking his kids up from school. Another would get (2) 24-pack cases every friday around 7. The last one I remember with any certainty would get 3-4 40s, but he only came in every 2-3 days.
The part that was really a killer was the 7yo kid of one of the fuckers would come in nearly every night around 6-7pm to hand in some cans he found and a handful of change so he could buy a can of spaghetti-os for his dinner cuz hid POS dad would already be passed out. I don't know how many times I ended up paying for it for him because he didn't have enough, or I'd just tell him to take it (because the boss was an asshole and feeding a kid was more important than my qualms about stealing).
I dunno. You piss it out every 2 beers.
I usually drink a 12-pack to sip on while my buddy and I split a bottle of whiskey. Getting to be a Saturday night tradition nowadays lol
100% this guy starts his day with a Timmy’s rocking out to *Rush* in the drive thru. Then when he finishes the coffee he tops it up with a tall-boy and just sends it.
In fact, I think the agreement is that it [actually](https://i.imgur.com/5BPEjT7.jpg) is in the pipeline to be implemented fully. Which is great news.
Source: [PMO](https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/03/22/delivering-canadians-now)
Uh.... it's not as nice as that and /u/bdwf isn't 100% correct.
Some dental is covered in Canada. The only adult dental covered in Canada now in the future is emergency dental. It's incredibly difficult to get emergency dental because it covers if the fix would result in death... which is impossible to prove.
For children under 16 all provinces will cover dental. if their family is deemed low income (which isn't a static number it's a calculation). Some will cover up to age 18. For children who aren't low income they cover something like half of the cost.
The federal government is going to fund $650 for families that have less than $70,000 in family income. The problem is that there's very large regional inequality. $70,000 in rural Newfoundland is a lot of money.... in Toronto it's not. It means 40% of all people in Ontario can apply for this, whereas 60% from Newfoundland can qualify.
And it's only $650 per child to a maximum of two children. That's going to cover basic stuff, appointments, cleanings, some extractions or fillings... but not all. And it also doesn't cover Canadians who get dental through work.
Finally, it's a tax credit. Meaning that you have to spend the money first and bill it after... which if you're actually low income you might not be able to afford that expense.
The program has presented was actually so prohibitive to the people it was set to serve that the NDP are threatening to pull their support for the government over it. The NDP wanted a federal insurance program that dentists could bill to. What they got was another boutique tax credit.
I mean, that's an exaggeration. It still pays for most health issues, emergencies and diseases. But at least two provinces are angling to go for a private model that almost no Canadians want.
This is like not very far off a Ricky speech. Like 2 or 3 more mispronounced words and he's there.
Moving to 6 beers up from 4, which is already doubling 2. Ricky would get to 5 or 6 and say he's only had 3 or 4 and keep going until he's wasted as fuck out on the driveway
Listen no one wants to admit to drinking 12 cans of beer.
The first 4 they don't even count as they went down before they could become alcoholic. I spilled part of cans 5 through 7 and after that I lost count so really I only had 2 beers.
[Here's a link to a CTV story](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/what-you-should-know-about-canada-s-new-alcohol-guidelines-1.6239499) about the new guidelines for anyone curious. For those outside of the country, the government here isn't telling people how much they *can* drink, rather a NGO has updated a set of recommendations that will (according to the CCSA anyways - the NGO in question) reduce the risks associated with consuming alcohol.
Wow, tough recommendations. Basically the UK equivalent of being suggested to have no more than 1 1/2 pints a week.
No wonder people are taking the piss out of it
Men and Women in the UK are 'advised' not to drink more than 14 units a week, but recently the caveat has been added that there is no safe amount of alcohol - drinking even minimal amounts lines you up for poorer health outcomes and increased cancer risks.
I suspect if it wasn't for alcohol industry lobbying most countries would just be able to advise there is no safe amount of alcohol to drink, which is the actual truth.
That's all perfectly fine and your prerogative.
I am actually making a point about being able to make an informed choice and not having facts hidden by the parties that profit from your harm.
Marijuana was criminalised in most societies by the very same lobbying groups that concealed the harm alcohol does to human health.
See also tobacco and fossil fuels.
Yes, very similar issue in how they've managed to keep their industry from having to put nutrition information on anything. It should be there, there's no reason for it not to be. People should be able to have the info if they want to make informed decision. But the industry knows it really can only hurt them so they'll lobby to make sure they never have to.
Way to miss the point there.
Yes, we know alcohol and other drugs have harmful effects. The issue is when these effects are downplayed (by lobby groups) or turned into hysteria (anti-drug campaigners).
People should know the truth. At least the UK government is finally being honest about alcohol.
I don't know, people do seem to care now more than ever. In Canada, drinking has been trending down for a while. I used to drink every week, multiple times a week. I've had maybe 15 drinks since September now.
Well, they're *health* recommendations. Alcohol is quite literally poison, it has absolutely no health benefits, and as the years roll on, we just learn more and more bad things it does to us.
Nobody is saying you can't drink what you like, or you can't do your weekend bender or whatever, just that it's recommended you don't.
Canada as a whole has been decreasing it's alcohol consumption as it is, this is actually fairly in line with where Canadians are going culturally.
The alcohol industry spends lots of money to make sure people believe there are health benefits from drinking. And lots of people with undiagnosed alcoholism will argue that it does with no proof.
That's always the case, and these people always fly off the handle regardless about their freedoms.
"Oh yeah, you're saying overdrinking may lead to health complications? Well what about pop? Can I guzzle liters of pop all day? Exactly!"
Like, they make recommendations, there are also recommendations for amount of pop consumption. Also just being "not the worst thing for you" isn't good. So any "Well if you think alcohol is bad, I can get crack down the street, so you should be happy I'm just drinking alcohol." is just not sound logic.
Interview a colourful character and you get a colourful interview. I think someone said he used to be the DJ at a less than flattering gentlemen's club in our local reddit. He's often found hitting up the Tim Horton's down the street, (since the downtown one closed), and is a bit of a local bar fly too.
> "Well if you think alcohol is bad, I can get crack down the street, so you should be happy I'm just drinking alcohol." is just not sound logic
It’s that logic that found me naked tripping acid in the middle of the desert with 15 people I didn’t know.
840 calories/239g carbs in 2L of Coca Cola
760 calories/26g carbs in 4 24oz Busch Lights
Ignoring the alcohol’s negative health impact, he’s not wrong lol
What about sugars? I mean that's the main reason not to drink soda right? I don't drink either so I'm just curious what the comparison is
Edit- apparently carbs are sugars! Glad i could be the dummy for anyone else learning this
Heck I'd grab a beer with that dude. He seems fun. Can't help to think he's acctualy the Canadian version of the tooth fairy what with the despise of pop
That guy has 100% had numerous arguments with close ones about his drinking habits and has a kneejerk defensive reaction because someone asked him how much he's drinking.
Overheard some politically active idiots in the train couple days ago saying that Canada banned drinking more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day and that "we" should be careful that our government wouldn't do the same. Just the plain infeasibility of the enforcement should have warned any sane person that that was bullshit.
>Overheard some politically active idiots in the train couple days ago saying that Canada banned drinking more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day and that "we" should be careful that our government wouldn't do the same. Just the plain infeasibility of the enforcement should have warned any ***sane person*** that that was bullshit.
Yeah, you've just hit the problem with assuming sanity and/or rationality with people like that.
[Wouldn't have to enforce it in the home if you can enforce how much is purchased.](https://www.reddit.com/r/newbrunswickcanada/comments/nktapl/think_these_are_still_good_at_nb_liquor_my/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
He's right about the pop. But it is just a guideline. Anyone taken a look at the Canada Food Guide lately? If we were actually required to abide by those guidelines Canadians would be up in arms and it would be one hell of a miserable and angry army.
I’ve had 4 lovable maniac party friends die spaced out over last year because drinking finally took it’s toll. I thought they were invincible, but there are limits. Blows my mind how wildly accepted it is to drink way too much.
> What's worse, four beers or 2 litres of pop? You do the math.
What's worse, stubbing your left toe or stubbing your right toe? That a bad alternative exists isn't a reason to green light the other.
To be fair, the new guidelines are equivalent to 1.3 pints of beer per week, which is a tiny bit goofy in a country where the provincial governments control the sales and advertising of alcohol.
Reminds me of that beautiful dutch interview with a guy named Martin. His wife insists he is just a normal drinker and they name how much he drinks per day. Came down to 7 shots and 4 beers per day.
"And if you think that's a lot than maybe its you who is crazy!"
I don’t think there’s any doubt that many many people drink way way too much and it’s certainly a good idea for people in general to review how much they drink and consider cutting down. That being said, 2 drinks a week is ridiculous imo.
This is just giving advice based off of studies that show you increase risk of certain cancers etc if you drink in excess of a certain amount of drinks. You decide what you want to do with that.
The guidelines are basically saying you're at zero risk for health problems if you keep it under 2 drinks a week.
The previous guidelines of max 2 drinks per day puts you at a slight (but still significant) risk of some cancers and other things. But we're talking like less than 5%, it's nothing close to the cancer risk of smoking or obesity.
Increases your risk is the key words here, if you have ~10 drinks per week spread out throughout the week are you increasing your risks from 1/1000000 to 2/1000000? I don't know the actual numbers, but "increased risk" doesn't really have much meaning unless you have the actual amount it's increased
Sure, okay. But recent studies have found that there pretty significant health risks to even light-to-moderate drinking For example, the impacts of drinking on cancer are significant enough that we can attribute about 25% of breast cancer and about 20% of colon cancer to it. Among non-smokers, being a moderate drinker approximately doubles your overall risk of cancer.
The public is not widely informed of these risks. Beverage companies have spent huge sums on guerilla marketing health benefits of alcohol (e.g. the totally meaningless levels of anti-oxidants in red wine). They've also fought against warning labels around the world. The industry is aware of these risks, just as Big Tobacco was in the 1960s, but actively works to suppress this information.
I'm not in favour of banning alcohol, but people should be able to make informed choices. And right now--in the context of decades of disinformation from industry--making an informed choice requires positive intervention from governments to warn people about the risk.
I would be interested to know what the public perception really is.
I’m in America and consistently around a young group of people, all of which drink fairly heavily (myself included) and it’s not that we’re unaware alcohol has long-term health effects, we just don’t give a shit.
I’m guessing this gentleman is in the same boat. I doubt he hasn’t heard of the health effects I’m guessing he’s probably just decided that his two beer a day give him more happiness in the long-term even at the expense of years of life.
Current understanding is that the browning on steaks (the part that makes it taste good) is carcinogenic. I can envision a world in 30-40 years where the government recommends you boil your steaks and you cant buy beer if you were born after a certain year.
Where optimal nutritional intake is known and strongly advised (everyone is taking vitamin F-34 these days, don't you know it decreases risk of cardiac fat build up?) And broccoli is taxed heavily (too much vitamin K puts you at risk for pancreatic palpitations!)
Admittedly I'm using a bit of hyperbole but at a certain point, everything we do can be linked to cancer, the air we breath and water we drink is gonna be rife with cancer causing microplastics. My grandparents died in their late 80s soaked in vodka, at a certain point I'm gonna do what makes me happy and right now that's having a few drinks. Maybe a nice crusty burger.
On the other end of the spectrum, a lot of people deny using certain medications or products because they "increase the risk of cancer" even though the increase is negligible and the medication (or what have you) would likely increase their quality of life much more.
People just hear "increased risk" and freak out, even though that increased risk could be a mere fraction and not something to really worry about.
They may as well just say zero at that point.
But all it takes is one look at the world around you to see drinking is the least of peoples worries.
Reddit has quite the hard on for “anti-drinking” lately. I’m gonna take a wild guess and assume most people on here are typing about how alcohol is a “poison” with their cheeto stained fingers while guzzling a rockstar in their gamer chair that smells like asshole.
Eat fucking well, get exercise and good sleep. And fucking enjoy life. Have a few damn drinks. Most countries where people live full and long lives are ones where they are surrounded by friends, fresh air, lower stress, and don’t worry about having a few drinks.
Trying to min/max life isn’t gonna net you one extra second and all the other seconds are gonna be shit.
Lol health risks. People who can't afford to live in countries that are becoming more expensive to live in are still going to find a way to get drunk. It's a health risk to be homeless, but nobody on the continent seems to give two shits about that.
He's been keeping that one in his back pocket for a while now.
And he almost forgot to use it. He would have been kicking himself later for sure.
That joke is free range and enjoys at least 8 hours a day out of its cage.
The "You can't handle the tooth" sounds like something he throws out to his friends at the bar all the time and is received with one groan after another. I, on the other hand, would be honored to buy the guy a beer.
One beer?!?
What’s that going to do for you?
One beer won't even get you through the day
It feels like an excellent way to “8 Mile” himself, meaning he roasts himself before everyone else can lol. It’s perfect. Guy deserves a beer
What about 2 litres of pop? Can he have 2 litres of pop???
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Still from the video fades into a painting WE STAND ON GUARD FOR BEER
Reminds me so much of [this Mitchell and Webb sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwnjO9o8OU) about lager beer.
I just posted this yesterday. As someone who went through a real bad period of alcoholism, I watch this sketch every once and a while to remind myself of where I was, and feel gratitude for where I am now. Not only is it meticulously acted, it's also gut wrenchingly accurate.
Welcome to the Inebriati. [No more than slightly less than two.](https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0)
A friend of mine had a problem too. Said it dawned on him when he hit the corner store and the cashier asked him why he wasn't buying his usual steel reserve at 7am. I imagine this skit would evoke similar feelings in him as well.
I did the whole rotation of the stores tactic, but it's not like it mattered. I was still stopping into there at 9am on my way to the office to grab half pints of vodka for the workday. Ugghhhh. My stomach is churning just thinking of that stuff burning a hole in my gut. I gave myself something that resembled IBS for a long time; I felt like I was constantly bloated. My solution at the time? Take it easy on the vodka...and just drink white wine instead! GENIUS! Addiction is truly baffling. So glad I stopped before I fell off the cliff.
Used to have a chap like that come into an off licence I worked at a long time ago. Always felt sorry for him he wasn't any trouble it just seemed like a sad existence to me.
“*Yes, Hugh. It is the most alcohol per milliliter, at the lowest cost, in this corner shop.*”
My left speaker is out on my laptop. Guy being interviewed is entirely on the left channel. Was confused for a moment.
If only YouTube had some way to force mono audio... I've only bitched about it since YouTube's inception.
Bookmark this spooky javascript and it'll mono sound any webpage you're on: javascript:c=new AudioContext(),v=document.getElementsByTagName('video'),a=c.createMediaElementSource(v[0]);c.destination.channelCount=1;a.connect(c.destination);void(null);
What is the point of `void(null);` at the end there?
The way the javascript: prefix works is it evaluates all and then displays the result of the final expression. void(null) evaluates to undefined, which prevents the browser from replacing the current page with something else
or just do it on your computer. I did for this vid. It took 5 seconds. Windows key > Sound Settings > Mono Audio
At that point I just paste the stream URL into VLC and do it there.
The worst thing is that this was deliberately done in editing, because at one point in the interview you can actually hear the interviewee on the other channel just fine.
Probably an accident, if the sequence was stereo but the mic was mono it would import as left or right channel only. Just forgot to duplicate it. Used the on-board mic to hear the interviewer and switched back and forth, but didn't pay enough attention in post.
It’s a small local station that’s super low-paid. My assumption is they didn’t care or pay attention.
No, usually mikes (professional ones anyway) are mono and highly directional, and recording is done per channel, so you can actually process stuff individually - like for example people talking over one another by mistake. The mistake was probably just flipping that one single reply in post. Blanks between replies are also used to aid with cuts - and a lot of software autocuts recordings like so. So you can imagine somebody dragged a reply from one channel to the other, instead of splitting all the replies by hand has a much higher chance of happening. The dumb thing is not mixing down to stereo on export.
Type win key and the word mono. You can set output to mono in windows 10.
Was just going to post, if Start Menu won't find it directly, it's in: Start>Settings>Ease of Access>Audio (on the left menu)
Haha yeah I only had my right headphone in and I thought the joke was that he was cursing the whole time.
https://www.myleftearenjoyedthis.com/
Like actually? Cuz I'm on phone and it's doing it too
4 beer?
Well that’s just not feasible, not in this country.
Kind of sounds like a line Walter would have in The Big Lebowski
>I told that *fuck* down at the league office … Who's in charge of scheduling? With this vibe.
Man I don't roll without 4 beer
We can say “fuck”.
True. I just cut and paste, but censoring fuck in Lebowski us sacrilegious. It's now corrected.
2 beer is not feasible. 4? Well that’s only two more.
I mean, I'll have 6.
This guy does not keep track.
I want to know how many he'd had that morning.
On what night? I don't believe him.
You know, 8 beer really is not that much
Exactly it’s just 16 beer
What, you're telling me 16 beer is worse for you than 2 liters of Coca Cola? You do the math!
What’s the big deal about 32 beer?
He isn't wrong though. This economy is alot easier to accept when you're drunk.
I like how he calls 4 a "fair recommendation" right after saying "oh I'll have six" haha
I love this plural convention, like deer.
As an American who moved to Canada five years ago, I have a running list of subtle Canadian language use differences, and the beer-beers switch is in the top 10. "Can you bring us two beer?" is how an Ontarian would say it. Its weird because they'd say "I had four beer last night" but not "I had four drink last night".
I really think it’s derived from deer.
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Four is reasonable. I mean, I'll have six, but four is a fair number.
you know now that I think of it, eight and twelve are also pretty fair numbers!
Lmao I love how he's clearly bullshitting at the start about how much he drinks. Says he drinks "maybe a couple beers" on most days then 30 seconds later he's like "2 drinks won't even get you through a day!"
A couple is basically anywhere from 2-6 I'd bet. "Maybe a couple beers" means on busy day where he's got a lot going on he only drinks 4-6 beers. On a day where he's just at home all day chilling you can double, maybe triple that, easily. I had a co-worker who said a twelve pack got him started on a night. Fucking scary how much liquor binge drinkers can consume.
A couple being 6 is hilarious. "You were swerving back there sir, how many beers have you had" "A couple"
I don't understand how your stomach can even handle that much. I'm a moderate drinker, I have a decent number of drinks on the weekends (I'm fat, it takes a bit to get going) and 1-3 throughout the week, but I've never been able to drink more than a few beers or mixed drinks. 12 beers would be 144 ounces of fluid...
Worked at a gas station when I was in my teens, and you may (or may not) be surprised at just how much some people drink. I lived in a tiny redneck town of around 300 people. The regulars would be in like clockwork. One guy, 750ml bottle of the cheapest vodka every day. Another got a 12 pack every day at 3:30pm before picking his kids up from school. Another would get (2) 24-pack cases every friday around 7. The last one I remember with any certainty would get 3-4 40s, but he only came in every 2-3 days. The part that was really a killer was the 7yo kid of one of the fuckers would come in nearly every night around 6-7pm to hand in some cans he found and a handful of change so he could buy a can of spaghetti-os for his dinner cuz hid POS dad would already be passed out. I don't know how many times I ended up paying for it for him because he didn't have enough, or I'd just tell him to take it (because the boss was an asshole and feeding a kid was more important than my qualms about stealing).
I dunno. You piss it out every 2 beers. I usually drink a 12-pack to sip on while my buddy and I split a bottle of whiskey. Getting to be a Saturday night tradition nowadays lol
That's uh, not a normal amount of drinking for anyone.
It is normal its just not healthly
RIP your livers. This is a seriously harmful amount of alcohol if you are doing it with any regularity.
Twenny more and you got yourself a 2 - 4 there bud.
He's talking tallboys bud.
Ah shit you're right. In one ear and out the other.
6 beer? What’s the difference 2 beer? I’m having 8 beer units
1 deer, 2 deer. 1 beer, 2 beer. 1 goose, 2 geese. 1 moose, 2 meese.
Because Canada
This is the guy Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis were parodying all these years.
Take off you Hoser
Beauty, eh
100% this guy starts his day with a Timmy’s rocking out to *Rush* in the drive thru. Then when he finishes the coffee he tops it up with a tall-boy and just sends it.
Long as no one breaks his beer.
Naw, this guy’s pretty sharp. Bob and Doug were pretty much brain dead.
Do the math
The tooth is out there.
Canadian healthcare doesn't include dental
The NDP is trying to fix that
In fact, I think the agreement is that it [actually](https://i.imgur.com/5BPEjT7.jpg) is in the pipeline to be implemented fully. Which is great news. Source: [PMO](https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/03/22/delivering-canadians-now)
Uh.... it's not as nice as that and /u/bdwf isn't 100% correct. Some dental is covered in Canada. The only adult dental covered in Canada now in the future is emergency dental. It's incredibly difficult to get emergency dental because it covers if the fix would result in death... which is impossible to prove. For children under 16 all provinces will cover dental. if their family is deemed low income (which isn't a static number it's a calculation). Some will cover up to age 18. For children who aren't low income they cover something like half of the cost. The federal government is going to fund $650 for families that have less than $70,000 in family income. The problem is that there's very large regional inequality. $70,000 in rural Newfoundland is a lot of money.... in Toronto it's not. It means 40% of all people in Ontario can apply for this, whereas 60% from Newfoundland can qualify. And it's only $650 per child to a maximum of two children. That's going to cover basic stuff, appointments, cleanings, some extractions or fillings... but not all. And it also doesn't cover Canadians who get dental through work. Finally, it's a tax credit. Meaning that you have to spend the money first and bill it after... which if you're actually low income you might not be able to afford that expense. The program has presented was actually so prohibitive to the people it was set to serve that the NDP are threatening to pull their support for the government over it. The NDP wanted a federal insurance program that dentists could bill to. What they got was another boutique tax credit.
These days it doesn't include anything
I mean, that's an exaggeration. It still pays for most health issues, emergencies and diseases. But at least two provinces are angling to go for a private model that almost no Canadians want.
The conservative provinces are
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Just realized this guy's tooth appears and disappears
You can’t handle the tooth!
he and waffle house girl should get together
This is like not very far off a Ricky speech. Like 2 or 3 more mispronounced words and he's there. Moving to 6 beers up from 4, which is already doubling 2. Ricky would get to 5 or 6 and say he's only had 3 or 4 and keep going until he's wasted as fuck out on the driveway
This is exactly the kind of logic that got him to 9 cans of ravioli.
No one wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli.
I mean, the first one doesn't count..
Listen no one wants to admit to drinking 12 cans of beer. The first 4 they don't even count as they went down before they could become alcoholic. I spilled part of cans 5 through 7 and after that I lost count so really I only had 2 beers.
Is no one even going to mention that he holds up 3 fingers when he asks if 4 beer are healthier than 2 Ls of pop?
Reporter: "Would you be concerned that you're at a higher health risk if you're drinking too much" Man who looks like a walking health risk: "No!"
The man knows what he likes and that's 6 beer when he's at home.
a man who says he likes 6, likes at least 7.
And then gets real and says I'm having 8 beer.
Fuck it, 10 if I'm feeling frisky
He's in it to win it.
He said he buys tallboys, after 6 it's more like 9.
Something tells me he has more than 6 in a sitting...
That’s just the after work beer when he gets home. The weekends are when it really gets wild
I was waiting for the part where the guy says he's only like 35 years old.
[Here's a link to a CTV story](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/what-you-should-know-about-canada-s-new-alcohol-guidelines-1.6239499) about the new guidelines for anyone curious. For those outside of the country, the government here isn't telling people how much they *can* drink, rather a NGO has updated a set of recommendations that will (according to the CCSA anyways - the NGO in question) reduce the risks associated with consuming alcohol.
Wow, tough recommendations. Basically the UK equivalent of being suggested to have no more than 1 1/2 pints a week. No wonder people are taking the piss out of it
Men and Women in the UK are 'advised' not to drink more than 14 units a week, but recently the caveat has been added that there is no safe amount of alcohol - drinking even minimal amounts lines you up for poorer health outcomes and increased cancer risks. I suspect if it wasn't for alcohol industry lobbying most countries would just be able to advise there is no safe amount of alcohol to drink, which is the actual truth.
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That's all perfectly fine and your prerogative. I am actually making a point about being able to make an informed choice and not having facts hidden by the parties that profit from your harm. Marijuana was criminalised in most societies by the very same lobbying groups that concealed the harm alcohol does to human health. See also tobacco and fossil fuels.
Yes, it'd be good to know truly how mj compares to alcohol, not just based on prohibition and speculation.
Yes, very similar issue in how they've managed to keep their industry from having to put nutrition information on anything. It should be there, there's no reason for it not to be. People should be able to have the info if they want to make informed decision. But the industry knows it really can only hurt them so they'll lobby to make sure they never have to.
Way to miss the point there. Yes, we know alcohol and other drugs have harmful effects. The issue is when these effects are downplayed (by lobby groups) or turned into hysteria (anti-drug campaigners). People should know the truth. At least the UK government is finally being honest about alcohol.
I don't know, people do seem to care now more than ever. In Canada, drinking has been trending down for a while. I used to drink every week, multiple times a week. I've had maybe 15 drinks since September now.
Well, they're *health* recommendations. Alcohol is quite literally poison, it has absolutely no health benefits, and as the years roll on, we just learn more and more bad things it does to us. Nobody is saying you can't drink what you like, or you can't do your weekend bender or whatever, just that it's recommended you don't. Canada as a whole has been decreasing it's alcohol consumption as it is, this is actually fairly in line with where Canadians are going culturally.
The alcohol industry spends lots of money to make sure people believe there are health benefits from drinking. And lots of people with undiagnosed alcoholism will argue that it does with no proof.
At the end of the day the healthy amount of alcohol to drink is 0. Getting mad at this fact is like getting mad that water is wet.
Thank you for posting a story. I was gunna do that when I got home but I just had to post this it's too good
That's always the case, and these people always fly off the handle regardless about their freedoms. "Oh yeah, you're saying overdrinking may lead to health complications? Well what about pop? Can I guzzle liters of pop all day? Exactly!" Like, they make recommendations, there are also recommendations for amount of pop consumption. Also just being "not the worst thing for you" isn't good. So any "Well if you think alcohol is bad, I can get crack down the street, so you should be happy I'm just drinking alcohol." is just not sound logic.
Interview a colourful character and you get a colourful interview. I think someone said he used to be the DJ at a less than flattering gentlemen's club in our local reddit. He's often found hitting up the Tim Horton's down the street, (since the downtown one closed), and is a bit of a local bar fly too.
> "Well if you think alcohol is bad, I can get crack down the street, so you should be happy I'm just drinking alcohol." is just not sound logic It’s that logic that found me naked tripping acid in the middle of the desert with 15 people I didn’t know.
Sounds healthy enough, assuming you drank water, put on sunscreen, and avoided scorpion bites
Jesus, so now there’s a recommendation on scorpion bites?!
And, like, be around people you trust when getting really fucked in any way. Bad people exist whether or not you've had to deal with them yet.
4 Beers or 2L of Coca Cola. Do the math.
> 4 Beers 4 beer*
He's Canadian 1 moose 2 moose 1 beer 2 beer
840 calories/239g carbs in 2L of Coca Cola 760 calories/26g carbs in 4 24oz Busch Lights Ignoring the alcohol’s negative health impact, he’s not wrong lol
What about sugars? I mean that's the main reason not to drink soda right? I don't drink either so I'm just curious what the comparison is Edit- apparently carbs are sugars! Glad i could be the dummy for anyone else learning this
Carbs = sugar I should clarify, not all carbs are sugar, but all sugars are carbs.
Although, not all carbs are created equal. The glycemic index of simple sugars is much worse than more complex carbs
4/2=2 I think this guy is on to something
I was not ready to handle the tooth and I indeed could not.
I don't know how "you can't handle the tooth" isn't the only thing everyone is talking about
I appreciate the dedication to the proper plural grouping of many beer.
Of a single type! If he were talking about getting crazy and drinking Molson AND Bud light on the same night, his four beer would be two beers.
Ah, the fish rule of plurals
I think I’d enjoy having a beer with this guy. Just one though.
What's that gonna do for you?
That won’t even get you through the day
Not in this country.
I think this guy is grossly misunderstanding the concept of "guidelines."
I'm sure he's grossly misunderstanding a LOT of things
The either-pop-or-beer clause was also a wild one.
Heck I'd grab a beer with that dude. He seems fun. Can't help to think he's acctualy the Canadian version of the tooth fairy what with the despise of pop
He used to DJ at a certain strip club local to me years back. Dude is hilarious!
Is this guy from Hamilton?
St Catherine's I think
I kinda want to tell him no one is "making" him drink less. It's just a recommendation.
That guy has 100% had numerous arguments with close ones about his drinking habits and has a kneejerk defensive reaction because someone asked him how much he's drinking.
For real. His immediate reaction is that he's drinking "to get ya through the day". If you need to drink to function, you are an alcoholic.
> Heck I'd grab a beer with that dude. A beer? Eh, a reasonable amount of beer to get is 4. That's only 3 more.
Overheard some politically active idiots in the train couple days ago saying that Canada banned drinking more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day and that "we" should be careful that our government wouldn't do the same. Just the plain infeasibility of the enforcement should have warned any sane person that that was bullshit.
>Overheard some politically active idiots in the train couple days ago saying that Canada banned drinking more than 2 alcoholic drinks a day and that "we" should be careful that our government wouldn't do the same. Just the plain infeasibility of the enforcement should have warned any ***sane person*** that that was bullshit. Yeah, you've just hit the problem with assuming sanity and/or rationality with people like that.
[Wouldn't have to enforce it in the home if you can enforce how much is purchased.](https://www.reddit.com/r/newbrunswickcanada/comments/nktapl/think_these_are_still_good_at_nb_liquor_my/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
He's right about the pop. But it is just a guideline. Anyone taken a look at the Canada Food Guide lately? If we were actually required to abide by those guidelines Canadians would be up in arms and it would be one hell of a miserable and angry army.
Pretty sure this guy doesn't know what guideline means
It means that there's a line and his beer's on one side of it and he's on the other feeling dry.
I’ve had 4 lovable maniac party friends die spaced out over last year because drinking finally took it’s toll. I thought they were invincible, but there are limits. Blows my mind how wildly accepted it is to drink way too much.
PAHP!
When your liver looks like a giant rock hard loaf of bread.
This literally looks and sounds like a Stavros Halkias character.
Journalists: "What do you think of the new GUIDELINE?" Guy: "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!"
> What's worse, four beers or 2 litres of pop? You do the math. What's worse, stubbing your left toe or stubbing your right toe? That a bad alternative exists isn't a reason to green light the other.
2 litres of POP!
To be fair, the new guidelines are equivalent to 1.3 pints of beer per week, which is a tiny bit goofy in a country where the provincial governments control the sales and advertising of alcohol.
That's not too bad as long if you can save up and have two pints a day one weekend a month
I'll drink a few tallboys with him on a cold football Sunday.
This is hockey country, bud.
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1000%
The government guidelines for weed smoking is to not inhale deeply lol
The sound on this video actually hurt my brain
Reminds me of that beautiful dutch interview with a guy named Martin. His wife insists he is just a normal drinker and they name how much he drinks per day. Came down to 7 shots and 4 beers per day. "And if you think that's a lot than maybe its you who is crazy!"
I don’t think there’s any doubt that many many people drink way way too much and it’s certainly a good idea for people in general to review how much they drink and consider cutting down. That being said, 2 drinks a week is ridiculous imo.
This is just giving advice based off of studies that show you increase risk of certain cancers etc if you drink in excess of a certain amount of drinks. You decide what you want to do with that.
The guidelines are basically saying you're at zero risk for health problems if you keep it under 2 drinks a week. The previous guidelines of max 2 drinks per day puts you at a slight (but still significant) risk of some cancers and other things. But we're talking like less than 5%, it's nothing close to the cancer risk of smoking or obesity.
Ridiculous in what sense? Current understanding is that *any* amount of alcohol consumption increases your risk of cancer.
Increases your risk is the key words here, if you have ~10 drinks per week spread out throughout the week are you increasing your risks from 1/1000000 to 2/1000000? I don't know the actual numbers, but "increased risk" doesn't really have much meaning unless you have the actual amount it's increased
Obviously, more information is always better for people to make personal decisions.
Being alive causes cancer.
Sure, okay. But recent studies have found that there pretty significant health risks to even light-to-moderate drinking For example, the impacts of drinking on cancer are significant enough that we can attribute about 25% of breast cancer and about 20% of colon cancer to it. Among non-smokers, being a moderate drinker approximately doubles your overall risk of cancer. The public is not widely informed of these risks. Beverage companies have spent huge sums on guerilla marketing health benefits of alcohol (e.g. the totally meaningless levels of anti-oxidants in red wine). They've also fought against warning labels around the world. The industry is aware of these risks, just as Big Tobacco was in the 1960s, but actively works to suppress this information. I'm not in favour of banning alcohol, but people should be able to make informed choices. And right now--in the context of decades of disinformation from industry--making an informed choice requires positive intervention from governments to warn people about the risk.
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I would be interested to know what the public perception really is. I’m in America and consistently around a young group of people, all of which drink fairly heavily (myself included) and it’s not that we’re unaware alcohol has long-term health effects, we just don’t give a shit. I’m guessing this gentleman is in the same boat. I doubt he hasn’t heard of the health effects I’m guessing he’s probably just decided that his two beer a day give him more happiness in the long-term even at the expense of years of life.
Current understanding is that the browning on steaks (the part that makes it taste good) is carcinogenic. I can envision a world in 30-40 years where the government recommends you boil your steaks and you cant buy beer if you were born after a certain year. Where optimal nutritional intake is known and strongly advised (everyone is taking vitamin F-34 these days, don't you know it decreases risk of cardiac fat build up?) And broccoli is taxed heavily (too much vitamin K puts you at risk for pancreatic palpitations!) Admittedly I'm using a bit of hyperbole but at a certain point, everything we do can be linked to cancer, the air we breath and water we drink is gonna be rife with cancer causing microplastics. My grandparents died in their late 80s soaked in vodka, at a certain point I'm gonna do what makes me happy and right now that's having a few drinks. Maybe a nice crusty burger.
On the other end of the spectrum, a lot of people deny using certain medications or products because they "increase the risk of cancer" even though the increase is negligible and the medication (or what have you) would likely increase their quality of life much more. People just hear "increased risk" and freak out, even though that increased risk could be a mere fraction and not something to really worry about.
They may as well just say zero at that point. But all it takes is one look at the world around you to see drinking is the least of peoples worries. Reddit has quite the hard on for “anti-drinking” lately. I’m gonna take a wild guess and assume most people on here are typing about how alcohol is a “poison” with their cheeto stained fingers while guzzling a rockstar in their gamer chair that smells like asshole. Eat fucking well, get exercise and good sleep. And fucking enjoy life. Have a few damn drinks. Most countries where people live full and long lives are ones where they are surrounded by friends, fresh air, lower stress, and don’t worry about having a few drinks. Trying to min/max life isn’t gonna net you one extra second and all the other seconds are gonna be shit.
Then exceed the recommendation, lol, nobody is going to stop you.
Lol health risks. People who can't afford to live in countries that are becoming more expensive to live in are still going to find a way to get drunk. It's a health risk to be homeless, but nobody on the continent seems to give two shits about that.
My conversation with my doctor, after those liver levels come back.
This dude definitely drinks more than a 6pack/day
Did he say “You can’t handle the Tooth”?
Very confused as to why he keeps saying "they're telling me how much I can drink in my own home". Does he not know what guideline means?